Maria Grazia Sindoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 6489876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Grazia Sindoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Grazia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sindoni |
| SIGNATURE | SINDONI M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Messina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6220-2981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Analyzing Video Interaction
The analysis of video interaction, a process of examining visual and embodied cues in digital communication, has become ever more central in applied linguistics. Unlike audio‐only data, video provides access to rich visual and embodied cues, including gaze, gesture, posture, facial expressions, and movement, which, if studied, offer insights into how language is used in varied social contexts in real time. In parallel, spontaneous and non‐spontan…
Translanguaging and multimodality in digital environments
Language Ideology in Translation/Interpretation
Translation and interpretation are activities that bridge different languages and cultures and, as such, they are inherently ideological, in that they activate a set of processes that indicate the positioning of all the involved participants toward the source language (SL), source text (ST), source audience and culture (SA and SC), as well as toward the target language (TL), target text (TT), target audience and culture (TA and TC). Language ideo…
Conceptual framework of translanguaging in mediated action
This paper develops a conceptual framework for translanguaging in mediated action, applying it to the analysis of how bilingual parenting is constructed on social media. Translanguaging, understood as situated and embodied meaning-making, has often been examined in educational contexts but less so in mediated environments. Here, the study extends the notion of translanguaging in action to digital spaces, where parents document and perform multili…
The femininization of AI-powered voice assistants
Intelligent Voice Assistants (IVAs), such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and Google Assistant, have been mainstreamed as female by default, through voices, avatars, colour palette, and conversational cues. Even though tech companies tend to justify this systematic feminization on customers’ preferences, the ingrained gender biases have been raising concerns about the normalization of gendered, abusive, and toxic discourse practic…
Multimodal computation or interpretation? Automatic vs. critical understanding of text-image relations in racist memes in English
Mode-switching in video-mediated interaction
Language as the tip of the iceberg? Shedding a critical light on ‘hidden’ discourse in digital platforms
Discourses on discourse, shifting contexts and digital media
The time is now”
The expanding galaxy of performing arts
This paper introduces the Special Issue on the languages of performing arts and is therefore aimed at designing how the context of the latter can be illuminated by socio-semiotic and multimodal approaches to communication. In this Special Issue, performances and performing arts are described as multimodal semiotic acts that co-deploy a range of semiotic resources to produce and construct meanings across different cultures and ages. Seen as dynami…
Un nodo avviluppato”. Rossini’s La Cenerentola as a prototype of multimodal resemiotisation
Since its early beginnings in Italy in the sixteenth century, opera has always been a multimodal text, integrating verbal, musical, and stage resources. Verbal resources can be unpacked in lyric verse for vocal pieces in closed form, narrative verse or prose for recitative, and stage directions; musical resources include instrumental and vocal music, whereas stage resources incorporate stage design, singers’ and dancers’ kinesics, and set and cos…
Through the looking glass
This paper provides a theoretical framework for the study of the video chat, a spontaneous web-based synchronous text that allows forms of communication in which social semiotic resources come into play and produce a new terrain of investigation for researchers in the field of linguistics, multimodality, communication and media studies, visual ethnography, and digital literacy. In particular, the paper singles out some aspects for analysis, such …
Creole in the Caribbean
La recréation fictionnelle du créole dans la littérature caribéenne de langue anglaise a été traditionnellement étudiée selon des critères eurocentriques. Le créole était considéré comme une déviation de l’anglais britannique (De Camp, 1971 ; Hall, 1966). Le créole est associé à des formes de communication typiquement orales, l’une des raisons de son utilisation accrue en littérature. Certains auteurs ont représenté l’expérience caribéenne en uti…
Language-in-education planning
This paper analyses the rationale for the creation of multimedia texts, in the context of learning English in an economically and socially depressed context. Issues of implementation of macro-level language policies in a local context are particularly stringent when the macro-level approach is rendered impracticable for some reason (e.g. cost, time and so on) and where the local context, though responsive to macro-level policies, does not have su…
The femininization of AI-powered voice assistants
Intelligent Voice Assistants (IVAs), such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and Google Assistant, have been mainstreamed as female by default, through voices, avatars, colour palette, and conversational cues. Even though tech companies tend to justify this systematic feminization on customers’ preferences, the ingrained gender biases have been raising concerns about the normalization of gendered, abusive, and toxic discourse practic…
The expanding galaxy of performing arts
This paper introduces the Special Issue on the languages of performing arts and is therefore aimed at designing how the context of the latter can be illuminated by socio-semiotic and multimodal approaches to communication. In this Special Issue, performances and performing arts are described as multimodal semiotic acts that co-deploy a range of semiotic resources to produce and construct meanings across different cultures and ages. Seen as dynami…
Language as the tip of the iceberg? Shedding a critical light on ‘hidden’ discourse in digital platforms
Un nodo avviluppato”. Rossini’s La Cenerentola as a prototype of multimodal resemiotisation
Since its early beginnings in Italy in the sixteenth century, opera has always been a multimodal text, integrating verbal, musical, and stage resources. Verbal resources can be unpacked in lyric verse for vocal pieces in closed form, narrative verse or prose for recitative, and stage directions; musical resources include instrumental and vocal music, whereas stage resources incorporate stage design, singers’ and dancers’ kinesics, and set and cos…
Language-in-education planning
This paper analyses the rationale for the creation of multimedia texts, in the context of learning English in an economically and socially depressed context. Issues of implementation of macro-level language policies in a local context are particularly stringent when the macro-level approach is rendered impracticable for some reason (e.g. cost, time and so on) and where the local context, though responsive to macro-level policies, does not have su…
Creole in the Caribbean
La recréation fictionnelle du créole dans la littérature caribéenne de langue anglaise a été traditionnellement étudiée selon des critères eurocentriques. Le créole était considéré comme une déviation de l’anglais britannique (De Camp, 1971 ; Hall, 1966). Le créole est associé à des formes de communication typiquement orales, l’une des raisons de son utilisation accrue en littérature. Certains auteurs ont représenté l’expérience caribéenne en uti…
Through the looking glass
This paper provides a theoretical framework for the study of the video chat, a spontaneous web-based synchronous text that allows forms of communication in which social semiotic resources come into play and produce a new terrain of investigation for researchers in the field of linguistics, multimodality, communication and media studies, visual ethnography, and digital literacy. In particular, the paper singles out some aspects for analysis, such …
The expanding galaxy of performing arts
This paper introduces the Special Issue on the languages of performing arts and is therefore aimed at designing how the context of the latter can be illuminated by socio-semiotic and multimodal approaches to communication. In this Special Issue, performances and performing arts are described as multimodal semiotic acts that co-deploy a range of semiotic resources to produce and construct meanings across different cultures and ages. Seen as dynami…
Un nodo avviluppato”. Rossini’s La Cenerentola as a prototype of multimodal resemiotisation
Since its early beginnings in Italy in the sixteenth century, opera has always been a multimodal text, integrating verbal, musical, and stage resources. Verbal resources can be unpacked in lyric verse for vocal pieces in closed form, narrative verse or prose for recitative, and stage directions; musical resources include instrumental and vocal music, whereas stage resources incorporate stage design, singers’ and dancers’ kinesics, and set and cos…
Mode-switching in video-mediated interaction
Language as the tip of the iceberg? Shedding a critical light on ‘hidden’ discourse in digital platforms
Discourses on discourse, shifting contexts and digital media
The time is now”
The femininization of AI-powered voice assistants
Intelligent Voice Assistants (IVAs), such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and Google Assistant, have been mainstreamed as female by default, through voices, avatars, colour palette, and conversational cues. Even though tech companies tend to justify this systematic feminization on customers’ preferences, the ingrained gender biases have been raising concerns about the normalization of gendered, abusive, and toxic discourse practic…
Multimodal computation or interpretation? Automatic vs. critical understanding of text-image relations in racist memes in English
Language Ideology in Translation/Interpretation
Translation and interpretation are activities that bridge different languages and cultures and, as such, they are inherently ideological, in that they activate a set of processes that indicate the positioning of all the involved participants toward the source language (SL), source text (ST), source audience and culture (SA and SC), as well as toward the target language (TL), target text (TT), target audience and culture (TA and TC). Language ideo…
Conceptual framework of translanguaging in mediated action
This paper develops a conceptual framework for translanguaging in mediated action, applying it to the analysis of how bilingual parenting is constructed on social media. Translanguaging, understood as situated and embodied meaning-making, has often been examined in educational contexts but less so in mediated environments. Here, the study extends the notion of translanguaging in action to digital spaces, where parents document and perform multili…
Analyzing Video Interaction
The analysis of video interaction, a process of examining visual and embodied cues in digital communication, has become ever more central in applied linguistics. Unlike audio‐only data, video provides access to rich visual and embodied cues, including gaze, gesture, posture, facial expressions, and movement, which, if studied, offer insights into how language is used in varied social contexts in real time. In parallel, spontaneous and non‐spontan…
Translanguaging and multimodality in digital environments
Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Digital Communication and Language (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Multimodality (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)